America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
JAMES MADISONAmericans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
More James Madison Quotes
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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